Author: Yeremia Nugroho (Yeremia Nugroho)

Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay There are things that we can understand and accept when we become mature Christians. Just like our physical body can only accept solid food as we grow up, there are certain teaching that we can only accept as we grow more mature in our Christian walk. What are these things? Watch your...

On July 4th, Sound of Freedom, a movie highlighting the danger and scale of human trafficking, especially children, around the world was released. In this movie, Matthew 18:6 was used: “but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened...

Some of us have already gone our vacation while others of us are preparing for our vacation. After a long vacation, we need a vacation from our vacation. We have been traveling over 30 days, transferring 10 airplane flights, taken over 1200 pictures, and I was ready to crash at my daughter’s home. We have...

My daughter often asks if she looks pretty, but when I said “yes,” she would say that of course I would say that because I am her dad. I am supposed to say that (though I beg to differ that that is the only reason). We often think of God’s love this way. We think...

Silicon Valley Bank touting itself as one of the best banks in America failed last week. Other banks might come next. Although the depositors’ funds are protected, their investors are not. This reminds us that our treasure on Earth is temporary and may vaporize at any given time. As Christians, our ultimate goal should be...

Some people maintain, including the sources for Wikipedia, that the four Gospels in the New Testament were written between AD 66-AD 110; long after the time of Jesus. Many also believed these accounts were not written by eyewitnesses – further questioning the Gospels’ account. This conclusion cannot be further from the truth.  The book of...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. It is involved in motivation, pleasure, and movement. It is the highest form of “currency’ in our brains. Hope may be related to dopamine in that it involves positive expectations for the future, which can lead to an increase...

Some of our Christmas traditions are just traditions and not biblical. For example, Jesus was not born on December 25. The Christmas tree is based on the celebration of the reincarnation of Nimrod. The ancient Babylonians burned a “Yule” log (the Chaldean word for infant) in the fireplace, and the next day a symbolic evergreen...

According to the Bureau of Standards in Washington, a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a depth of 100 feet is composed of less than one glass of water. That amount of water is divided into about 60 billion tiny droplets. Yet when those minute particles settle over a city or the countryside, they...